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(12-07-2017, 04:02 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: If the long wait times are to be believed, shoe horning nonmedical ancillary services in with VA hospitals medical services will only further burden the system.

Could be. Or it could be combining administration frees up resources that can go towards services.

No idea, but if I was trying to make the best use of a small pot of money, that would be the first thing I looked at.

Quote:Asking the VA to provide housing is like asking HUD to provide cancer screening. That's not what they do and they aren't set up to do it. My first impression is this is Ben Carson's uninformed and misguided idea of cutting funding for the sake of cutting funding

I dunno that much about the program. Just reading their web page and about the program, it's a voucher system. HUD directs vets to housing authorities near VAs (I'm assuming, as I mentioned earlier, due to many civic and state groups that already handle transport in areas around VAs), and the vet can use the vouchers at the authority for housing. It's not like the VA is out inspecting apartments or coordinating vets getting back and forth. It sounds like they were trying to let VAs use that funding to figure out how to make it work locally, as opposed to the one-size-fits all approach of HUD referring to VAs, who then refer back to HUD.

Either way, looks like they're changing the plan.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/veterans-affairs-homeless-vets-program_us_5a28fb8fe4b03ece03001ee9